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Daniel Levitin est psychologue américain.

✵ 27. décembre 1957
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“Music… is… a core element of our species, an activity that paved the way for more complex behaviors such as language, large-scale cooperative undertakings, and the passing down of important information from one generation to the next.”

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Daniel Levitin livre The World in Six Songs

The World in Six Songs (2008)

“Multitasking is a myth. …What's actually happening in the brain is sequential tasking. …the brain is rapidly shifting …so quickly and seamlessly that you don't really notice… What you end up with is attention that's been fractionated into little… bits and you're not able to actually sustain attention on any one thing. …You're not saving time. You're wasting time.”

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Talks at Google (Oct 28, 2014)

“One hundred years from now Beatles songs may be so well known that every child will learn them as nursery rhymes, and most people will have forgotten who wrote them. They will have become sufficiently entrenched in popular culture that it will seem as if they've always existed, like Oh Susannah, This Land Is Your Land, and Frère Jacques.”

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The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/jun/02/comment.music (June 1, 2007)

“Joni uses a lot of alternate tunings; that is, instead of tuning the guitar in the customary way, she tunes the strings to pitches of her own choosing. …Joni will talk compellingly and passionately about alternate tunings for hours, comparing them to different colors that van Gogh used in his paintings.”

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This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

“Consonant intervals and dissonant intervals are processed via separate mechanisms in the auditory cortex.”

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This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

“The six types of song that have shaped human nature—friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love songs—I've come to think are obvious…”

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Daniel Levitin livre The World in Six Songs

The World in Six Songs (2008)

“Music has been a shaping force… music has been there to guide the development of human nature.”

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Daniel Levitin livre The World in Six Songs

The World in Six Songs (2008)

“Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information.”

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Daniel Levitin livre The Organized Mind

The Organized Mind (2014)

“Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don’t know it.”

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Daniel Levitin livre The Organized Mind

The Organized Mind (2014)

“A gene that promotes nurturing behavior postcopulation could… spread throughout the population, to the extent that the offspring of people with the nurturing gene fare better, as a group, in the competition for resources and mates.”

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This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

“Memory strength is also a function of how much we care about the experience. …If I'm playing an instrument I like, and whose sound pleases me in and of itself… caring leads to attention, and together they lead to measurable neurochemical changes. Dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with emotional regulation, alertness, and mood, is released, and the dopaminergic system aids in encoding the memory trace.”

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This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

“In 1976, the average supermarket stocked 9,000 unique products; today that number has ballooned to 40,000 of them, yet the average person gets 80%–85% of their needs in only 150 different supermarket items. That means that we need to ignore 39,850 items in the store.”

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Daniel Levitin livre The Organized Mind

The Organized Mind (2014)

“Mozart had extensive training from his father, who was widely considered the greatest living music teacher in all of Europe at the time.”

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This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

“Anyone who wants to understand human nature, the interaction between brain and culture, between evolution and society, has to take a close look at the role that music has held in the lives of humans.”

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Daniel Levitin livre The World in Six Songs

The World in Six Songs (2008)

“Studies of violin players by Thomas Elbert have shown that the region of the brain responsible for moving the left hand… increases in size as a result of practice.”

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This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

“A good rule of thumb is every couple of hours take fifteen minutes off. Naps are also very helpful, short naps.”

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Even a ten or fifteen minute nap in the middle of the day can be the equivalent of an hour and a half of extra sleep the night before, and it can raise your effective IQ by ten points.
Talks at Google (Oct 28, 2014)

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